XFX $10K Counter-Strike: Source Qualifier

Local Team Wins WCG Gears of War Tourney

World Cyber Games 2007 Photos

World Cyber Games North Regional Photos available below!

World Cyber Games 2007 North Regionals

If you have photos and would like to add them to our collection, please email us: bill@netheads.com

World Cyber Games / Circuit City Monster!!!

Check out these pictures from the most awesome motor coach ever!!!

The inside is incredible! Check out this panorama!

World Cyber Games Regionals!!!!

Saturday, August 4th & Sunday, August 5th!

Counter-Strike: PNY XLR8 Gold Tournament

Net Heads announces the PNY XLR8 Gold Tournament on Saturday, June 16th!

More prizes, more money and more cities.

Over $6,150.00 in cash prizes alone!!

Check out some of the great deals during this event!

PNY March Madness 2007 CS1.6 Tournament

PNY is sponsoring another great tournament on March 24th.

$6,000.00 in cash prizes is at stake and even more in cool merchandize prizes.

To make it easy for you to attend, we're holding a free LAN qualifier on March 17th where the top three local teams get to participate in the tournament for free and get free all day passes for each player.

Check out all the details in our latest newsletter.

Register for the tournament here.

Remember, the Qualifier is March 17th at noon and the Tournament is March 24th, so sign up today.

Cheap and easy, just like us!

It's Just a Little Snow!

Just in case you were wondering, YES, we are open today.

So, if you are out of school or off of work, then come on down!

We're Upgrading! And We're Selling Our Systems!

Every two years we upgrade our computer systems just so we'll have the latest technology.

We then sell our perfectly good existing systems to folks who need a new one. That's you or someone you know.

These are the great systems that we've been using right in the store. Check out the specs:

Case:	Aspire X-Dreamer
Motherboard:	Asus A7N8X-X
Processor:	AMD Athlon 2500+
RAM:	512MB Crucial PC3200
Hard drive :	120GB Hitachi 7200RPM
Video:	ATI 9800 Pro 128MB AGP8X
CDROM:	52X CD-ROM
Floppy:	1.44 Floppy
Audio:	On board
Network:	On board

And we're practically giving these away! Each system is only $375. Want one and want to save $25? Tell your friends and if you come in and buy them together, we'll give both of you the discounted price of $350 each.

Over 2/3 are already spoken for; 1/3 of them have already shipped and this is our first announcement!!

These systems make great upgrades for gaming systems at home or for parents, game servers, web servers, database servers or development/testing machines. They're even great for younger brothers or pet monkeys (as if there was a difference).

These systems include only what's shown and do not include Windows XP or application software.

If you need help installing Windows, we can do that for you. For just $30, we'll install a genuine copy of Windows XP Home or XP Professional that you obtain or already have on your own (take THAT Geek Squad).

Get your holiday shopping done early and save some money at the same time.

But don't wait too long!

C-S: 1.6 Core 2 Extreme Challenge Free Qualifier

We're sponsoring three local teams in the Intel C-S: 1.6 Core 2 Extreme Challenge.

To select our sponsored teams, this Saturday, November 25th at HIGH NOON we're having a FREE, four team, single elimination CS 1.6 tournament.

C-S: 1.6 Core 2 Extreme Challenge

The Cyber Square Alliance proudly presents the . . .

Intel C-S: 1.6 Core 2 Extreme Challenge

5 Cities. Thousands of dollars in cash and prizes. What are you waiting for?!?! SIGN-UP TODAY!

FREE Qualifier details here!

web2zone (New York, NY)
Nekstlevel (Toronto, CA)
Net Heads (Indianapolis, IN)
MugNMouse (Frisco, TX)
CG Centre (Irvine, CA)

Day 1 | Local LAN Qualifiers
Saturday, December 2, 2006

The first day will be comprised of a local LAN tournament at each of the five centers. Teams will compete for an Auto-Berth into the Center-to-Center Grand Prize with cash and product prizes furnished by Intel, PNY and Steel Series.

:: 1st Place: Grand Final Auto-berth (Day 2) + Sponsored Prizes (TBA)
:: 2nd Place: $250 CASH + Sponsored Prizes (TBA)
:: 3rd Place:$150 CASH + Sponsored Prizes (TBA)
:: 4th Place: Sponsored Prizes (TBA)

Day 2 | Center vs. Center Grand Final
Sunday, December 3, 2006

The second day will be comprised of a Center vs. Center Online Finals using optimized ESEA servers, where the winners of the first day LAN qualifiers will be invited back to compete for:

:: 1st Place: $ 1,500 CASH + TBA
:: 2nd Place: $ 1,000 CASH
:: 3rd Place: $ 750 CASH
:: 4th Place: $ 500 CASH
:: 5th Place: $ 500 CASH


16 TEAM MAX AT EACH CENTER! REGISTER & PRE-PAY TODAY!

CSA C-S 1.6 Summer National Challenge

The Cyber Square Alliance is bringing another National Tournament to Net Heads.

If you've played in the last ones, you'll know how great these are.

America's Army Back For More! A FREE Event!

They're coming back for another skirmish in Broadripple.

The Army will be giving away prizes every 10 minutes. That includes dozens of concert tickets.

This is a FREE event that has just been scheduled, so more details will follow soon.

Time is Noon to 6pm. During that time, the store will be open for America's Army play only.

Expedition Cure Launch Party

We're helping sponsor a really great adventure for a really great cause.

Two Hoosiers are attempting to off-road the entire North American Continental Divide - from Canda to Mexico - in just 21 days.

World Cyber Games Comes to Net Heads

The World Cyber Games is the largest video game tournament in the world - and the U.S.A. qualifiers are coming to Indy!!

Last year 1,250,000 players competed with 679 competitors from 67 countries advancing to the finals in Singapore - where the cash purse was $435,000.

Friday Night Fights

Friday Night Fights.

Time to settle down with friends for a quiet evening of...

WHAT?

With all the events coming up, this might be the best time to get some serious gaming in.

6pm to 1am - $20.

Warcraft III: DotA Tournament

Net Heads will be hosting a 5v5 Warcraft 3: DotA tournament on August 12th, at 10:00AM EST.

Dual T1's

Yes ma'am, we now have TWO full T1 connections.

What does that mean to you? You'll now be experiencing lower pings, less lag, faster download speeds, and better overall gaming and surfing performance!

Open July 3rd & 4th

Yes, folks, we'll be open July 3rd and 4th regular hours.

We'll be holding a Pyromaniac Support group where we just blow things up virtually instead of in real life.

MySpace Returns!

We have re-enabled access to MySpace.

With our new state-of-the-art firewall and internet traffic shaper in place, surfing those media heavy profiles should no longer cut into online gaming performance. We are still adding a second T1 line too. It's coming as fast as the phone company can get the line installed. We expect the upgrade to happen sometime next month.

Intel CS 1.6 Extreme National Tournament

Wow, Intel is at it again.

Another great CS 1.6 Tournament is on the way, with thousands of dollars in prize money and some of the greatest prizes ever offered in a gaming tournament.

Look, Ma! We're In The Movies!!!

A full length feature movie was recently filmed in Indianapolis and Net Heads provided the set for an FBI Cryptology Lab.

The movie, EZMoney, premieres April 13th at 8pm at the Indiana Historical Society.

We're Crazy For Leagues

We've gone nuts over leagues (it's the heroin, we're pretty sure).

These are held every week on the same night. $10 from 6pm to close.

Pick up teams are encouraged, so if your last team threatened to shoot you in real life, we'll still have a spot for you.

This is informal, fun gaming that has some good prizes at the end of the season.

Here's the lineup:
- Monday - Battlefield 2 - Details / Rules
- Tuesday - CS:Source - Details / Rules
- Wednesday - Call of Duty 2 - Details / Rules

Intel CS 1.6 Extreme - FREE Qualifer!

We're sponsoring three local teams in the CS 1.6 Intel Extreme Edition National Tournament.

Saturday, April 15 & 22nd at 3pm we're having a FREE 4 team, single elimination CS 1.6 tournament. Winning team gets free admission to the CS 1.6 Intel Extreme Edition National Tournament - courtesy of Net Heads.

That's right. You win in a 4 team single elimination tournament and you get your way paid for free.

Woof.

Looking for the catch? OK then, here:
- This is for local teams only and for teams that have not competed in a CSA event before.
- If you don't win on the 15th, you can try again on the 22nd.
- Yes, if you win, you get the free all day passes, too.
- We're sponsoring up to three teams for this event, if there's time to do it.
- If you don't win in the first qualifier, you can play in the next one.

Review: You get to compete for free and if you win, you play in the tournament for free and have a shot at some insane prizes and then you get an all day pass on top of that. (What's gotten into us?)

Register
You register by emailing His Majesty The Admin (aka josh@netheads.com). Registrations are done on a first come first served basis based on the order in which they are received. Email your team as soon as you can get them all onboard.

On the day of the tournament, teams will be seated in the order they registered, provided all team members are present at 3pm.

CSA Quake 4 3-way Challenge

We're hosting another Cyber Square Alliance Quake 4 Challenge

It's us against the Cowboys from Texas and the Boyz from Da City.

ACM SIGGraph to Meet

The IUPUI Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH will be meeting at Net Heads on Monday, March 27th.

SIGGRAPH is a huge graphics organization and members include some of the best talent ever.

Check out their site, it's amazing what's being done right here in Indy.

Guest speaker will be Michael Root of Gabriel Interactive, a game developer in Indianapolis.

This promises to be a good presentation, with an opportunity to ask questions of people who are really in the business.

PNY March Madness

*** UPDATE ***

You can check the latest standings here.

*** UPDATE ***

Over $8,000 in cash and great prizes and we don't mean t-shirts).

If you can warm your fingers long enough to get some feeling back you should register your Counter-Strike team for another tournament in our CyberSquare series.

Wild & Woolly Weekend - Call Ahead !!

We've got a wild and woolly weekend planned!

Friday Night Fights - March 17th

In an attempt to do ourselves in, we've scheduled way more than we can handle this weekend, but...

The Fights Must Go On!

Call of Duty 2 League

Another COD/2 League starts on April 13th.

These are weekly leagues and single players are welcome to join in as we put together pickup teams if necessary.

Play other teams around the country each week for great prizes.

More details soon!

Friday Night Fights - March 3rd

Dogfights are getting to be the thing - and we're not talking about the Jerry Springer show.

Ravenshield & Battlefield Clans

The 106 Air/Cav Tactical Combat Division is coming on April 8th to hold their LAN party at Net Heads.

This is open to the public, but beware because seating will be tight.

They'll be playing Ravenshield and Battlefield 2 on the LAN.

Check out their site for more details.

Standard rates apply to this event.

$2,000 Halo 2 Tournament March 4th

Console players...

If you're into Halo 2, there's a monster tournament in Terre Haute at eBash Gaming Center this Saturday.

Friday Night Fights - Feb 17th

¿Cuál es el acontecimiento más popular?

¡Venido a las Luchas de la Noche de Viernes!

Muy macho, mi hombre.

March 3rd Worm Spreads

A new worm is loose on the net and it's a nasty one.

Security company F-Secure has reported that Nyxem.E reached the top position in its virus statistics with 21.7 percent of all reported infections. On Saturday the Web counter used by the Nyxem worm itself showed over 510,000 infections and continued to rise, according to F-Secure.

You can check here for detailed information on the infection.

A free downloadable virus protection software may help from BitDefender.

Remember, keep those patches and virus definitions up to date!

Thanks to WishTV for spreading the word!!!

Quake 4 Tournament - Feb 11th

Holiday spending catching up with you? Lottery tickets looking less and less attractive all the time?

Cheer up, Bunky. You can have fun and make money at the Quake 4 Winter Challenge.

Friday Night Fights - January 20th

Time to break out the weapons of Mass Deduction. It's Friday and it's been two weeks!

New Games - See? We Do Love You!!

We're in the Movies!!!

We actually helped sponsor a really cool, full length feature movie, shot in Indy - especially in Broadripple, by local guys.

Net Heads Gets to Iraq

This is our version of the "find the baby ducks in this picture" game. The more we looked at it, the more bad asses we saw in it.

A Holiday Party

We'll be closed for business starting at 3pm Wednesday, December 7th for a private party.

We will reopen for normal business hours on Thursday morning at 11am.

Some really cool company figured out that Net Heads is a great place to have a company party.

Maybe if you hadn't had that lampshade on your head at the last party your invitation wouldn't have gotten "lost in the mail."

Maybe next year, Bunky.

Happy Thanksgiving - Letters from Iraq

Many of you remember Rich, one of our regulars who shipped off to Iraq.

PNY CPL Winter Qualifier Wrap-up

Net Heads, Indianapolis, IN - On November 12th, 2005, six teams drove from five states to attend the PNY CPL Winter 2005 Counter-Strike 1.6 Qualifier at Net Heads. Attendance may have been small, but the action was big.

The event kicked off with two spankings handed out by Strapped and oj, sending sinister and ^Exponential to the lower bracket where they would both exit the tourney in round 2. Upper Round 2 wouldn't go quite so well for Strapped and oj, as 50|cal and uNited uNderground sent them both to the lower bracket. Both games were very close though, with both Strapped and oj making big second half pushes in their respective games to take the matches down to the wire.

oj and Strapped would then face off on dust2 in the lower bracket to see who would secure 3rd place. Strapped took the first half 8 to 7, but oj took 8 rounds in the second half to send the match into overtime. After losing the pistol round, Strapped won the next 4 rounds to win the match. Strapped would then go on to lose to uNited uNderground in round 4 and go home with 3rd place.

Meanwhile, the day's main rivalry, UU vs 50|cal was just heating up. Both teams featured former members of Glimpse of Reality, who won the Midwest CPL Summer Qualifier and local PNY CS 1.6 Challenge at Net Heads earlier this year. In their first match, 50|cal handled uu with ease in a 16-8 win. But, uu was determined to prevail as they took out Strapped to win the lower bracket and move on to the finals.

The first championship round was a barn burner as PineKone, who turned out a stellar performance and would later be named tournament MVP, led uu to a 16-13 win over 50|cal on dust2. 50|Cal had picked up some steam towards the end of that match though, which carried over into the second championship round. 50|cal managed to edge out uu 8-7 in the first half of round two on train, and uu would have to settle for 2nd place, as JoNNiE, firewire, and crew turned up the heat to win the second half 8-5 to win the tournament.

Congratulations to 50|cal for a hard fought and well deserved win. Good luck at the big show in December!

You can find the demos HERE and the pictures HERE.

Hitachi & Net Heads Rebate Program

We've struck a deal with our hard drive sponsor, Hitachi.

Buy any Hitachi hard drive and we'll give you free computer time up to the price of the drive (up to $150).

We only have 29 of these rebates, so act quickly.

November is Call of Duty 2 Month

That's right.

Every Friday Night, we're having Call of Duty 2 Free for Alls.

If you haven't played it yet, you need to stop in. This game is serious fun and absolutely rocks!

TEN-HUT! Veterans Day Party

We're holding our usual Veterans Day LAN this Friday.

Any active or retired military personnel are invited to come play for free all day long.

Your first drink is on us (and that includes beer)!

Some of you we know well and others we don't. Bring some ID. (That nasty scar that you really got from your sister doesn't count.)

Bring your buddies, call a friend, send your uncle and your Dad. Spend the day with other vets and have some fun.

It's the least we can do.

Thanks, guys!!!!

Winter CPL Qualifiers Nov 12th & 13th

The Winter CPL Qualifiers are here!

That's right - Indy has been selected again as one of 5 places in the country to get a shot at the CPL Winter Events.

US Army Returns!!! A FREE Event!!

The US Army returns on Saturday, October 29th!

Those of you who attended these events in the past know what awesome days they were.

Just to add to the excitement, we've rolled two events into one!

The Daytime Event includes prizes every 15 minutes from the Army, RadioNow 93.1 and free Bawls (don't worry - these are not skill based - if you suck you can still win). That's where you get to climb the wall, check the Humvees and chat it up with real soldiers and some dude named Nigel from RadioNow 93.1. It runs from 1200 (noon) until 1700 hours (5pm).

Prizes include:
  iPod Nano
  iPod Mini
  Skateboard decks
  Colts tickets
  Pacers Tickets
  Santa Slam tickets
  CD's
  Haunted House tickets
  T-shirts


The Tournament Event starts at 6pm and goes until we declare a winning team of 4 players. Tournament prizes are to be announced. To play in the tournament, you must stop in and register during the Daytime Event.

We'll answer some of your questions right up front:

- Yes, the climbing wall will be back!
- Yes, the Humvees will be here and a mini-Cooper
- Yes, really cool soldiers will be here, too
- Yes, RadioNow, 93.1 will be giving away prizes (like an iPod Nano and an iPod Mini!) every 15 minutes during the day.

RadioNow, 93.1 will be advertising over 250 times in the next two weeks, so listen up for our ads.

We'll be playing the latest version of America's Army (2.5) which has just in been release in the last couple of days. There are now over 6 million registered player of this game. Want some practice before the shooting starts? Download it for free from the America's Army website.

No sign up is necessary and it's totally free.

This is an event you don't want to miss.

Newsletter updates will be sent to keep you up to date on the ever expanding prize lists. If you don't already get our newsletter (tsk, tsk) you can sign up here.

Fights Be Back, Bro'

We've had to take a small vacation to heal up after the last fights. But just like Mike Tyson, we're back for more (minus the prison time, thanks).

Friday Night Fights - Day of Defeat!

Friday Night Fights are back after the DigitalLife Qualifiers last time.

Day of Defeat is in!!! The famous World War II shooter that we've been waiting 18 months for. Based on the Half Life/2 Engine, this tactical combat game is one of the best ever and it's just been released this week.

Fusion, Dot and Willy are all joining up.

Don't miss it. Shooting starts at 6pm and goes until 1am.

$20 for our sytems, $10 to bring your own.

$100,000 Intel Microsoft Digital Life Qualifier

Net Heads brings you the Digital Life Midwest Qualifiers! One of the biggest gaming events in the nation!!

Make it to the finals and compete for $100,000 in cash and prizes!!!

Katrina Victims in Indianapolis

Katrina has sent its victims all over the country. Many have landed or will be landing in Indianapolis soon.

Many of them have lost everything, including computers and communication tools. Communicating with friends and relatives can bring comfort in a time of high anxiety and uncertainty.

For those victims near Indy, Net Heads is offering a free hour each day to stay in touch with loved ones and family that have been scattered by the storm.

Applications include email, Internet, web cams, instant messaging and internet based voice communications. Those looking for work can create resumes.

Systems are available throughout the day and can be used each day.

All we ask is that they show a current Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama drivers license or other photo ID before they sign in.

Please let others know.

PNY National CS 1.6 Challenge

Results are in from the PNY National Counter-Strike 1.6 Challenge!

Click here for Indy standings.
Click here for National standings.

Friday Night Fights - Saboteurs!

Friday Night Fights are back and this time they're gonna be cool. No. Really cool.

Engineers promise to have the life support systems back online by then - it seems industrial saboteurs did in the compressor.

Don't miss it - fun, fun, fun until your Daddy takes your T-Bird away.

Our systems - $20
Your system - $10

6pm to 1pm. Friday Night (yes, we have to say that).

Check out the newsletter here.

Battlefield 2 Is Here!

This game is incredible. 64 players with full commander mode and squad based tactics.

It's the game that the original Battlefield series wanted to be.

EA has been kind enough to supply us with copies for you try. Check out the official site here.

Friday Night Fights - It's ON Biatch!!

If you haven't been to the fights - you've really missed out. Some of the best fun we've EVER had at Net Heads.

We're doing it again this Friday. Battlefield 2 is going to be HOT!!!

Mayhem and murder from 6pm to 1am - $20 our systems, $10 to bring your own.

Register and reserve by phone 257-6635 or in the store.

Fathers Day Freebie

Fathers Day. The heat, the ugly ties, the sappy cards.

Help Dad beat the Fathers Day Blahs. Bring him to Net Heads for free. That's right. You show up and sign in and he comes with you for free.

Friday Night Fights

The heat is making us do it. Another Friday Night Fights is in the cooker!

Friday Night Fights!

It's Memorial Day Weekend! The town is filled with race fans who take over the restaurants and drop names and BenFranklins like they grow on trees.

Avoid the hassle and come to Friday Night Fights. See old friends you haven't seen in what... two whole weeks!


6pm to 1am - $20 our seats, $10 BYOC.

CPL Regional Qualifiers at Net Heads

Net Heads To Host CPL Regional Qualifiers

Regional Winners Will Compete At The Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championship in Texas

The CPL USA Regional Qualifiers will be held simultaneously in four regions across the United States on Saturday, June 4, 2005. The competitive video game qualifiers will feature two popular PC-based games - Valve's Half-Life: Counter Strike (v1.6) and Dreamcatcher's Painkiller (v1.64). Intel, PNY Technologies and Plantronics are the official sponsors of the regional tournaments.

The entry fee for the Counter-Strike 1.6 Qualifiers are $125 per team.

Visit http://events.esportsea.com/cpls05 for more information and to register to participate.

Celebrities In The News

You've seen him at Net Heads, you've heard him on the radio, you've seen him on RTV6 News and you've seen him on ebaumsworld.

When you're famous, other famous people just want to hang out with you.

Friday 13th Friday Night Fights!

It's risky, but they're on for tonight.

6pm to 1am - $20 our seats, $10 BYOC.

NEL $30,000 CS 1.6 Tournament

National E-Sports League $30,000 CS 1.6 Tournament

www.thenel.com

Deadline for sign-up is this Friday, May 6th at 9:00PM EST. Your team must be registered, have a full roster, and be confirmed paid on the NEL site by this time.

Saturday, May 7th is the in-house double elimination tournament. The winning team from Saturday continues to Sunday, May 8th in the Regional and Championship games.

Match start times TBD by the NEL. They should be posted very shortly.

The servers are hosted by gamedaemons, but all games will be played from LAN Centers.

Game CS:1.6
Roster size 5 players
Entry fee $38 per player
Open to all teams

Maps:

-de_dust2
-de_train
-de_cbble
-de_nuke
-de_inferno

Prize Structure for EACH region:
Regions East/Central/West

1st Place $3,700.00
2nd Place $1,500.00
3rd Place $900.00
4th Place $600.00
5th - 8th Place $450.00
9th - 12th Place $375.00

The event page is here.
The rules page is here.

Friday Night Fights!!

That's right! Seems longer than 2 weeks this time.

Has the pain from your last whooping subsided, yet?

Net Heads Named NEL Arena for Indiana

Net Heads has been named as the Arena for Indiana for the National ESports League.

.NET Architecture SIG Meeting

There is a special meeting of the Indy Dot Net Developers Association Architecture SIG at 6pm, April 20th.

Topics and details can be found here.

Friday Night Fights on TAX Day!

We have a special accountant set up to deliver our taxes to the IRS.

Drop off your taxes this afternoon and you can meet him at the Friday Night Fights tonight!

April Fool's Friday Night Fights

That's right! Another installment of the Fantastic Friday Night Fights.

These are our best events yet!

St. Paddy's Day Special

No, Sheila, we didn't forget. All day passes are only $18 and your first Guinness is included. They're $2.50 a pop after that, as usual. And while supplies last, too.

Take a look at those poor lost sheep, stuck in that clover.

Friday Night Fights Goes Tropical

Tired of winter? Us, too.

This Friday, come to Net Heads and experience the jungle heat of our Far Cry matches.

6pm to 1am. $20 for our systems, $10 for BYOC (please note that BYOC spots are very limited and should be held by reservation).

IndyNDA Developers Meeting @ Net Heads

The Arc